Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 158 192
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 16 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.90% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 13
10th Percentile £294 £379 -
25th Percentile £515 £421 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -7.61%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £545
90th Percentile £692 £674 £549
England median daily rate £550 £643 £550
% change year-on-year -14.40% +16.82% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,368 1,105 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.18% 31.54% 28.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 751 970
10th Percentile £219 £261 £206
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £576 £630 £623
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 16 32
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.75 £18.98
25th Percentile £14.81 £19.10 £19.93
Median hourly rate £36.50 £28.75 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% -11.05% +54.94%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.25 £61.59
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £79.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -4.02% +22.77% +1.75%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +1 8 £588 -7.84% 13
Hampshire -10 6 £625 +10.13% 4
Berkshire -2 5 £588 +11.90% 8
Oxfordshire - 2 £300 - 2
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £650 +1.96% 3
Surrey -15 1 - - 4
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 10 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (31.25%) Serverless
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (25.00%) IaaS
5 4 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (18.75%) Azure
6 3 (18.75%) Azure Storage
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (12.50%) PaaS
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (18.75%) Gradle
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) RESTful
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (43.75%) Agile
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (31.25%) Microservices
7 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (25.00%) High Availability
7 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (25.00%) Runbook
8 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 3 (18.75%) OO
8 3 (18.75%) OOP
8 3 (18.75%) Project Management
8 3 (18.75%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) OCP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
4 4 (25.00%) Grafana
5 3 (18.75%) Data Guard
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (18.75%) Puppet
6 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (12.50%) systemd
7 1 (6.25%) Argo
7 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.25%) JDA